Miss Maybell and Slimpickin’s Featured at the Brick Church in Lovell

LOVELL — The duo of Miss Maybell and Slimpickins, awarded “Best of New Hampshire” 2016 for Americana Music from New Hampshire Magazine, will perform Thursday, Aug. 10, at the Brick Church for the Performing Arts.

The pair play American roots, blues, jazz, country, and ragtime music from the 1910-40s, as well as original tunes. Their instrumentation includes resonator guitar, banjo, ukulele, washboard, suitcase kick-drum, and a 1930s bazooka kazoo. 

Slimpickins has been playing guitar for more than 15 years, and with his undying love for old music has truly mastered the classic finger-style blues guitar of some of the most amazing  pickers in early American music, such as Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Johnson, and Big Bill Bronzy. 

Miss Maybell has always had a deep love of music and has been singing and playing one instrument or another for her whole life. She has an immense attachment to the great women singers of the past such as Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday. With a deep contralto voice and a firm musicality, she is fully equipped to execute the challenge of singing the great songs of the past. She also plays banjo, washboard, guitar and kazoo, while stomping away on her suitcase kick-drum. 

Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door. The Brick Church for the Performing Arts is on on Christian Hill Road. Refreshments will be served at intermission. FMI: Call Stan Tupaj at 207-925-1500 or go to www.lovellbrickchurch.org.